Style presets
Palettes rooted in real design traditions. Not random. Informed.
Design history as color logic
Swiss
Clean, rational, high contrast. Derived from Muller-Brockmann, Ruder, Weingart. Restrained saturation, clear hierarchy. The grid is the palette.
Bauhaus
Primary-leaning, bold. Derived from Albers, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy. Strong hue differentiation, geometric clarity. Form follows color.
Japanese
Muted, warm, natural. Derived from Hara, Tanaka, wabi-sabi tradition. Low saturation, subtle gradation. The beauty of restraint.
Brutalist
Raw, high contrast, unpolished. Derived from exposed-material aesthetics. Stark backgrounds, heavy ink. Nothing decorative.
Editorial
Refined, warm, paper-like. Derived from magazine design tradition. Warm neutrals, restrained accent. The color of good publishing.
Ranges, not fixed values
Each preset defines per-role saturation and lightness ranges. The generator picks values within those ranges, so every palette feels different but stays true to the tradition.
Swiss palettes always have high background-ink contrast and restrained accent saturation. Bauhaus palettes always lean toward primaries with strong hue separation. Japanese palettes always keep saturation low and warmth high. The ranges encode the rules. The randomness provides the variety.
You can combine presets with harmony modes and temperature controls. A warm Swiss palette. A cool Bauhaus palette. A neutral Japanese palette. The system composes.
Derived from data, not intuition
Every preset was analyzed from real palettes in our inspiration library. 42+ books. Actual covers. Measured colors. We extracted the saturation and lightness distributions for each role across every palette in a tradition, then set the ranges to capture the center 80% of that distribution.
When we say "Swiss," we mean palettes that sit within the color space defined by Swiss design work we have studied. Not what we think Swiss design looks like. What it actually is.